Explosive Aboard?
An Afriqiyah Airways jet crashes. A Libyan airplane. Just as it lands at Tripoli airport. A nearly-new, not much-flown Airbus A330-200 flying from Johannesburg, South Africa to Libya. Crashing just short of the runway. On board 103 people, the majority of whom were Dutch. One survivor, a ten-year-old boy who had been on board with his parents and his older sibling.The child had leg fractures, has been operated on, and is now in stable condition. The sole survivor. What does his future hold? He is at Tripoli's al-Khadra hospital, where some people on staff there spoke Dutch, and communicated with the boy. Has he yet been informed, in his condition, that he is an orphan? That is the only remaining human-interest story in this tragedy.
How to explain that a nearly-new jet inexplicably explodes on approaching a runway of a modern, but not technologically-advanced airport. It had landed. What would excite such an explosion? One so violent that nothing but fragments were left of the jet. Completely extinguished but for the tail, still standing, alone and lop-sidedly, but relatively intact.
Something was obviously amiss, sufficiently so that the pilots radioed ahead to that effect, requesting emergency services on the runway. There was a 'problem' with the plane that the pilots had become aware of. The weather was fine, with clear skies. There were 22 Libyan nationals aboard, 2 Germans, 1 Filipino, 1 Zimbabwean, and 61 Dutch nationals.
Their lives extinguished along with the crew of 11. The black boxes have been retrieved. "The deaths were probably due to the impact as I did not hear any report of a fire. The plane was travelling fast as it was still sort of the runway when it crashed", according to the explanation given by the head of the Afriqiyah Airways legal department.
So.... What happened? Just wondering....
Labels: Africa, Technology, World News
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, May 13, 2010
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